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[Martina]

Originally Posted by IslandScout

One of my least favorite aspects of the show is the heavy-handed analogizing with contemporary diversity politics.

Alan Ball SWEARS he's not creating some big allegory, that the show is really all about sex. Yeah, right.

But I guess there's something to showing a huge variation in the ways one can be oppressive. Seriously, everyone who believes anything strongly ends up doing more harm than the selfish pleasure seekers, even those who kill for pleasure. It was interesting that Roman the liberal was as oppressive a leader as anyone else.

Hoyt's brief flirtation with group membership in the last two episodes was telling. (It was so funny how the hate group self-identified as a hate group.) Anyway, he said, "Right here, right now I feel more love in this hate group than I ever felt at church or basketball or anywhere for that matter." But being a member meant he had to kill Jessica, and he was too sane for that. So he had to give it up.

I do think that what Sam said to Sookie when she asked if he'd ever want to be normal is pretty much endorsed. He said something about wanting to keep fighting for his rights. Sookie agreed and said that the hate would probably bother you anyway, whether it was directed at you or not. Ah, found Sam's quote: "No way, I’d say you’ve got to keep fighting stupidity. Every mind you change is one less on the bad guy side."